Barons author Austin Frerick joins Nicolas and Kent to unpack why American butter turned white, how JBS and Cargill captured the food system, what a chicken contract actually costs the farmer who signs it, and how ethanol quietly erased the pastures Iowa used to graze. Plus Costco, Sysco, and GLP-1s.
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Chapters:
0:00:00 Intro and Guest Austin Frerick
0:02:00 Butter in Coffee
0:06:00 Kerrygold and Pasture Butter
0:08:00 Corn and Farm Subsidies
0:14:00 Year-Round E15 and Iowa Corn Growers
0:16:00 Ethanol and Farm Margins
0:18:00 Farm Labor and Visas
0:22:00 People Losing Connection to Animals
0:24:00 Solar vs Corn per Acre
0:26:00 Global Agribusiness Dominance
0:28:00 Sam Walton and Public Narrative
0:30:00 Growing Regional, Not Biggest
0:32:00 Meat Recalls and Sysco
0:34:00 Farmers Who Can't Feed Themselves
0:36:00 Fast Food Prices
0:38:00 Costco
0:40:00 Iowa Grocery Stores
0:42:00 Malls and the Built Environment
0:44:00 Walmart Supercenters and Hypermarket USA
0:46:00 Bentonville
0:50:00 Philip Morris, Kraft and Processed Food
0:52:00 GLP-1s
0:54:00 Ending the Laissez-Faire Era
0:58:00 Industrial vs Pasture Bacon
1:02:00 Outrage and Community
1:04:00 Industrial Chicken History
1:10:00 Iowa's Packer Ban and Smithfield
1:14:00 Vertical Integration Trade-Offs
1:16:00 SNAP and Processed Food
1:20:00 Politics and Timing
1:24:00 Distributor Consolidation and Subsidies
1:26:00 Wrap Up
